An unprecedented statewide hand recount is now under way in the Sunshine State, further extending a muddled, high stakes battle over every last vote in Florida’s crucial U.S. Senate race.
But, barring a legal challenge, the race for governor is over.
Following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8.3 million votes cast in the Nov. 6 election, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered hand recounts Thursday afternoon in the U.S. Senate... [...]
Florida Republicans and Democrats are assembling red and blue armies of lawyers as the state faces a historic challenge of up to three statewide election recounts, all at the same time.
As clerks counted more ballots Thursday, races for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner got closer. That increased the chances that all three will be subject to hand recounts of tens of thousands of ballots where voters chose no candidate or more... [...]
Two jail inmates face murder charges for supplying the fatal fentanyl that killed a fellow inmate at the Miami-Dade County Jail, authorities said Thursday.
A Miami-Dade grand jury this week indicted the two men under a new state law that makes it easier to charge murder if someone provides a lethal hit of fentanyl, the powerful opioid that’s hooked addicts across South Florida and the United States.
The accused: Nathaniel Vargas, 36,... [...]
The prime suspect in a string of mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats was essentially homeless in South Florida, living in his van and also building his dangerous devices in the vehicle, law enforcement sources told the Miami Herald on Friday.
Federal investigators towed the vehicle away from the parking lot at an AutoZone in Plantation shortly after arresting Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old ardent bodybuilder, former stripper and... [...]
President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an order next week that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and bar anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum — two legally dubious proposals that mark his latest election season barrage against illegal immigration.
Trump also said he had told the U.S. military mobilizing at the southwest border that if U.S. troops face... [...]
